[metmom]

Early scientists/philosophers who were theologians always speculated that Mary had to have had a special relationship to Jesus because in general it was believed that women always contributed from their own body towards the generation of a human being.

No more special than any other mother/child relationship.

Except that she had the privilege of having the only child in all of human history to always obey his parents.

[MHGinTN]

LOL, that is a perspective which never occurred to me before! As an aside, I wrote about this in the little book posted here at FR in 2000, America, We Need To Talk.

What the article and the believers in Catholic stories regarding the biological relationship between Mary and Jesus miss is the FACT that we do not know from scripture if Mary mitochondria was in Jesus’s cells. It is a biological fact that some placental cells, cells made by the gestating person, would be surviving in the uterine lining of the mother of the baby, even in surrogacy pregnancies.

[Mark17]

Except that she had the privilege of having the only child in all of human history to always obey his parents

And the ONLY child in human history, who was born, specifically to die. 🤗